SMS Novara (1850)

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|Ship name= SMS ''Novara'' |Ship namesake= Battle of Novara (1849) |Ship ordered= |Ship builder= Venetian Arsenal, Venice |Ship laid down=20 September 1843 |Ship launched=4 November 1850 |Ship completed=June 1851 |Ship commissioned=(pre-1862) Full-rigged frigate |Ship decommissioned=Hulked, 22 August 1876 |Ship in service= |Ship out of service= |Ship struck=22 October 1898 |Ship renamed= |Ship reclassified=Gunnery training ship, 22 June 1881 |Ship motto= |Ship nickname= |Ship honours= |Ship fate=Scrapped, 1899 |Ship notes= }}

|Ship length= |Ship beam= |Ship draft= |Ship propulsion=1 shaft, 1 steam engine |Ship speed= |Ship range= at |Ship complement=550 |Ship power= |Ship armament=*4 × 60-pounder smoothbore Paixhans guns *28 × 30-pounder Novara guns *2 × 24-pounder Breech-loading guns |Ship sail plan= |Ship notes= }} |}

'''SMS ''Novara''''' was a sail frigate of the Austro-Hungarian Navy most noted for sailing the globe for the Novara Expedition of 1857–1859 and, later for carrying Archduke Maximilian and wife Carlota to Veracruz in May 1864 to become Emperor and Empress of Mexico. Provided by Wikipedia